Committed to the developing of body life in the church

As the body life goes, so does the health of social action and evangelism.

The church loves their people when they tenaciously work to develop skills, attitudes, and atmospheres not in order to just  cast vision but to gather and empower people in the implementation of their missional vision.

Leaders shape the community to become a place where genuine, transparent and authentic relationship can take place.

They do so in the belief that, without a community faith, they are impotent to the missional task.

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Lead from Influence

This is the really tricky part.

What if you have nothing in your background that gives you influence?  What if you have a stained background that has not been cleared up?  What if risk taking is not a possibility because there are no safety nets or at least you desire that no one sees them?

The default is that this leader, being desperate for the praise of others, will play to the crowd and shape their ministry to elicit affirmation rather than to encourage prophetic imagination. 

They will have too much to lose.

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